Dear all,

Thanks to those of you who were able to attend the *General Assembly today!*

If you weren't able to attend, you can* watch the recording here*. https://youtu.be/AABAFHRDljc

As part of the Assembly, we kicked off *voting for the user group's board*. *All five existing board members* (LiAnna Davis, Susanna Mkrtchyan, Ziko van Dijk, Filip Maljkovic, and João Alexandre Peschanski) are running again. *Another candidate*, Bukola James, was nominated during the meeting; she introduced herself to voting members beginning at 25:55 in the YouTube recording. Since she was not nominated prior to the start of the meeting, she is not included in the form, but you are welcome to write her in -- If you select "no" to the full re-election question, you will get an opportunity to write in candidates. According to the User Group's by-laws, there can be up to 7 board members, so you can vote for all six candidates running if you'd like; simply write in their names.

*Voting will be done via this Google Form https://forms.gle/BMDGU5NzFnxb9i7q6 *and is open to anyone who was a member of the user group at the time voting began. Please check if your username is listed on this page https://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia_%26_Education_User_Group/Members&oldid=23859163 under "Members List", and if so, please feel free to participate and vote!

*Voting is open until 16:00 UTC on Tuesday, November 10 *(one week from the start of the meeting). As a special advisor to the group, I was asked to oversee the process. I will therefore be analyzing your votes and announcing the results.

All the best to all the candidates! Shani.

--------------------------------------------------- Shani Evenstein Sigalov Special Advisor, Wikipedia & Education User Group.